It looks like The Grand - one of Birmingham’s hottest redevelopments - could bring some brand new retailers and food offerings to the city.

The company behind the changes - Horton’s Estate - is keeping tight-lipped over interest but a lot of bars, restaurants, coffee shops, sandwich shops and retailers have enquired about the Colmore Row project.

Confirmed names are expected to in May.

Retailers could be moving in to the Grade II listed units on Colmore Row, currently undergoing extensive facade work, as soon as this summer, with trading starting in autumn.

At the moment things have stalled in terms of a hotel on the site, because finding a construction firm to bring the building into the 21st century with lifts and broadband is proving difficult.

The ornate Grosvenor Room of the Grand Hotel in Birmingham, pictured in September 1978

But the developers say they 'remain hopeful' of finding a solution.

Watch this space!

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